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The Rorists^ Review 



August 21, 1919. 



Knoxville on his way to the convention. 

 Harold Joy and Mr. Johnson, of the Joy 

 Floral Co., Nashville, Tenn., were in the 

 city recently. R. E. M. 



BALTIMORE. 



The Market. 



The market last week was congested 

 with a supply of stock which has not 

 been equaled in Baltimore for a long 

 time. Even with this, sales were above 

 normal for the season. There was en- 

 tirely too much stock for the demand 

 and there was a large surplus of stock 

 each day during the week, so that when 

 Saturday came there was an accumula- 

 tion that made the street men welcome 

 at the wholesale liouscs. During the en- 

 tire week it was a case of the purchaser 

 picking out the best stock; the poorer 

 quality had to be disposed of on the last 

 day for anything it would bring. This 

 is especially true of asters. The writer 

 was struck with the great glut of an 

 exceedingly poor purple aster which 

 was seen at every place he visited. 

 Upon asking the reason he was told 

 there were no more of this variety than 

 usual, but they did not sell, the accumu- 

 lation creating the apparent glut. 



The hydrangea season was at its 

 height and the nurserymen seemed to be 

 of the opinion that they might, this sea- 

 son, get something out of the flowers, 

 instead of letting them wither in the 

 fields. I am afraid that in a great many 

 cases thej' did not get what it cost to 

 cut the flowers and get them to market. 



While there arc some fairly good roses 

 to be seen, the majority are of poor 

 quality. This is the case with nearly 

 everything on the market at this time. 

 Quantity seems to have entirely taken 

 the place of quality. There is the usual 

 supply of all sorts of miscellaneous 

 stock to be had at almost any price. 



In speaking of conditions, with a man 

 who is well informed on the subject, I 

 was told the same conditions exist in 

 almost every city of the east and, no 

 doubt, the west also. In August the 

 supply of outdoor stock goes away be- 

 yond the demand. 



Various Notes. 



John J. Perry, of the S. S. Pcnnock 

 Co., was recently showing me their line 

 of ribbons and florists' supplies, saying 

 that they are taking advantage of the 

 slack times to get in readiness for the 

 coming season. A fine new wall case, 

 the entire length of the show rooms, 

 displays these things to unusual advan- 

 tage. Mr. Perry said they were just 

 getting their stock in shape, as there 

 would be lots added before fall. In 

 speaking of business in general, Mr. 

 Perry said that if he could only get the 

 growers educated to properly grade and 

 pack their stock many of his troubles 

 would be past. When I said the grower* 

 was the loser in this case, he replied 

 that it was just the point. When a 

 grower has a good article and it comes 

 to market bruised and in poor shape, it 

 is an impossibility to get market prices 

 for it, and yet the grower, who in many 

 cases does not see it after it leaves the 

 range, cannot understand why he does 

 not get the prices he sees quoted in the 

 trade papers. It seems foolish for a 

 man to go to the trouble to grow his 

 stock well and then spoil it after it is 

 cut. This is one of the most important 

 things the grower should look after. 



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Lord Welseley, purple 1.00 



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Pallida, color of Dalmatica, smaller 75 



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